Risk assessment of the consumption of a pyrrolizidine alkaloid containing indigenous vegetable Crotalaria brevidens (mitoo)

Ecology of Food and Nutrition

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 111-119

  Uiso, Febronia C ^a,b   Johns, Timothy ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MUHIMBILI MEDICAL CENTRE   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Crotalaria brevidens; East Africa; Indigenous leafy vegetable; Pyrrolizidine alkaloids; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001104846     PISSN: 03670244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03670244.1996.9991481     Document Type: Article

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